DOD general counsel Haynes announces resignation Monday, February 25, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
DOD general counsel Haynes announces resignation
David Frueh at 4:59 PM ET
http://www.wikio.com/news/William+J.+Haynes
[JURIST] Pentagon General Counsel William J. Haynes II [official profile] will resign his position with the US Department of Defense [official website] next month, according to an announcement [text] from the DOD Monday. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates [official profile] commented that Haynes' tenure as DOD general counsel was the longest in US history. Principal Deputy General Counsel Daniel Dell'Orto [official profile] will serve as acting general counsel after Haynes' departure.
Haynes leaves the Department of Defense less than five months after former Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis [official profile, PDF] resigned [JURIST report; JURIST op-ed] his position citing political pressure from the Defense Department. In an interview [text] with The Nation last week, Davis implied the tribunal process may be rigged [JURIST report], saying that Haynes had told him none of the detainees could be acquitted. President George W. Bush nominated Haynes for a federal appeals court judgeship multiple times since 2003, but the nomination was never approved by the Senate and was eventually withdrawn [JURIST reports] in 2007. Haynes' nomination met resistance [JURIST report] in part over his role in helping to draft the Defense Department's detention and interrogation policies after Sept. 11.
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I can't even image the amount of fraud & other crimes that
Hayes witnessed & perpetrated during his overly long tenure.
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Hayes and the rush to closure
Pentagon General Counsel Resigns This is a good article describing Hayes's involvement.
There is a push to run these detainees into a rigged tribunal, where they will be executed before the current administration leaves office, so that any questions about OCT in the coming years can be addressed that the 911 Commission and the Tribunals had investigated and punished the criminals. Case closed ....NOT.
Hayes was probably another Zelikow-like mole
After having followed this story, it is shaping up that Hayes was another WH political appointee, aka mole, just like Zelikow.
With the resignation of Col. Morris Davis, last fall in October, protesting using testimony taken by torture from lower rank detainees, and being told by Hayes that acquittals were off the table. The unraveling is in it's second stage.
The first stage began with the resignation of three other prosecutors:
Maj. Robert Preston, Capt. John Carr and Capt. Carrie Wolf, asked to be transferred from the Office of Military Commissions in 2004, saying they had been told the process was rigged, Davis said.
Before Davis' selection as chief prosecutor, three other prosecutors requested to be transferred out of the Office of Military Commissions in 2004 reportedly out of similar concerns.
Maj. Robert Preston, who sent e-mails to his supervisors decrying the lack of strong evidence against the accused, felt that the military was pursuing small targets.
"I felt that we were looking at guys who were small potatoes. In what is considered a war crimes trial, you typically go after the leaders, not the guy carrying the rifle."
Preston, who says that Davis was one of his instructors, thinks that the colonel's resignation is a major indictment of the process. (reference the last 3 sentences from the ABC article)
And in an interesting twist of fate, Retired Col. Davis has agreed to be a witness for one of the detainees who was a taxi driver for OBL. This story is becoming very interesting.